Fiction, Contemporary Women
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Ashes in My Peanut Butter
by R. R. Tityk
In the 1970s, Gwen is an ambitious young student looking for a profession that will grant her independence. She decides on dental school, and asks to shadow Dr. Lee, a well-respected and very successful dentist. Dr. Lee has a happy marriage of...
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Whispers and Shadows
by Najat Sinclair-Benrbia
WHISPERS AND SHADOWS is the story of Ahlam, a Moroccan girl, who finds herself living an identity crisis in a culture that privileges boys over girls. Amid the chaos, Ahlam tries to navigate her ways in her turbulent surroundings, with all the...
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The Deposits
by Corinne Tessier
This debut novel will have you pondering your attachment to physical objects and how these hold unexplainable power to connect you with others...have you considering how your energy and actions ripple across social divides and age differences,...
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Every Seven Years and I Don't Remember
Two Books by Cindy I. Wilson
"Every Seven Years" and "I Don't Remember" My grandmother always said life changes every seven years, "Sometimes for better, Sometimes for worse". In the book "Every Seven Years" a young American draft dodger meets the "love of his life" at a...
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No Safe House
by Jan Garnett
Kathleen (Kot) Cafferty is an optimist, a dedicated professional, and rather fond of control until she is suddenly swept into the RCMP’s Witness Protection Program with only her dog for company. When the safe house becomes anything but, Kot...
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The Primitives
by Darlene Barry Quaife
In the early months of the Spanish Civil War, Canadian-American archaeologist Dr. Grace “Shale” Clifden and her inexperienced field crew of well-met Canadians—Dorothy Livesay, P. K. Page, and Sheila Doherty—are documenting a rare discovery of...
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DIY Home
by Lorraine McQueen
It’s Georgie’s fiftieth birthday, and she’s running headfirst into a whopping mid-life crisis. Daughter of a minister and a high school principal, Georgie is a perpetual do-gooder who has spent her entire life putting others first—right down to...
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Bait and Switch
by Frances Schepp Ruh
Isabelle Chilton Chandler, Chicago-based author of a successful women’s mystery series, has always known exactly what she wants and how to get it. But when she starts working on a new book, inspiration—for the first time ever is painfully out of...
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A Garden of Her Own
by Kate Phelps
Amy James is a good wife and a good gardener. Married to renowned architect Graham James and employed as a part-time garden columnist, Amy has almost enough to keep her happy. Engaged in researching a new book—a collection of essays about women...
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Question Everything
by Frances Schepp Ruh
On a stormy spring afternoon, middle-aged Betsy Flemming is shocked by her husband’s announcement that he’s leaving her for her best friend—a betrayal that spins her into a crisis of confidence, struggling to maintain a relationship with their...
